In re Cuffe's Estate

HONORABLE ROY E. AYERS, District Judge,

sitting in place of MR. JUSTICE REYNOLDS, disqualified, delivered the opinion of the court.

Matt Cufie died intestate in February, 1917, leaving surviving him four children, all minors except Katherine Cufie Gallegher, who was appointed administratrix of his estate, which was appraised at $36,000. John J. Cufie, one of the minor children, had eighty acres of land in his own name, and under the law inherited one-fourth of his father’s estate, all in Flathead county. Soon after his father’s death and while yet 8a minor (he was born January 1, 1898), he went…